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May 17, 2013

Review: The Inner Road-Ascension

The
Inner Road is a symphonic instrumental progressive rock band. Coalition member
Steve Gresswell created The Inner Road as a way to write more a symphonic style
of progressive rock that wasn’t right for Coalition. Although Gresswell does
the majority of the writing for The Inner Road, he collaborates with other
artists when creating albums. The Inner Road released their debut album, Visions, in 2011 with guitarist Phil
Braithwaite. Now The Inner Road is releasing their second album, Ascension, with guitarist Jay Parmar.

Ascension is an excellent album full of great
instrumental progressive rock. Steve Gresswell has created an album full of
emotions and Jay Parmar helps brings those emotions to life with his guitar
skills.

“Two Worlds Two Tomorrows” is an excellent rock song. Parmar does a wonderful
job on guitar. He also provides some incredible solos throughout this song. He
really shows his skills on this track. At over eight minutes long, this is the
second longest song on Ascensions;
the longest is the epic “Flight Through Eternity” at over ten minutes.

The darker sounding “A Fleeting Dream” contains a great
riff throughout the song. Once again Parmar provides some incredible guitar
solos. The drumming on this song is also worthy of mention. There is a keyboard
solo towards the end that would make any guitar fan want to take the keyboard.

“The Awakening” begins with an instrument that sounds
like aborigine instrument, and continues through the song to provide the beat.
Like the rest of the songs on the album, Parmar provides some excellent guitar
playing as well as a few exceptional solos.

The Inner Road is an excellent band, and Steve Gresswell
has done a great job a creating a marvelous progressive rock album, and Jay
Parmar gives the album a unique sound with his amazing guitar skills. Ascension is a wonderful album, and any
progressive rock fan will want to check it out.